The only advice I give to people buying audio equipment is to go to the local hi-fi shop and listen for yourself because there is so much variation in people's taste that you really need to see and hear the options for yourself. Since you've done that I'm sure you'll be really happy with it.

My Sony amp and Bowers & Wilkins speaker system was certainly not the most popular choice of systsm when I bought it 5 years ago but I loved the clinical sound of the Sony amp and my speakers just flat out rock!